Improvement in water-wheels



UNITED STATES oHADIAH AYLswoETH, oF

IMPROVEMENT IN BAINBRIDGE, NEW YORK.

WATER-WH EELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,152, dated June 24,1843.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHADIAH AYLswoETH, of the town of Bainbridge, in thecounty of Chema-ngo and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Reaction Water-Wheels; and I do herebydeclare'that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which-Figure l is a perspective ot' the upper side of the wheel; Fig. 2, aperspective' ot' under side of the wheel.

The nature of my invention consists in bringing the Water int-o moreimmediate contact and directaction with that portion of the bucket.which is more effective than the reaction wheels now in use, in most ot'which the great mass of water near the shaft tends by its weight toimpede the [notion of the wheel and cannot readily be made effective.For this purpose all that portion of the bucket in ordinary wheels notdeemed necessary to its action is by improvement removed.

The wheel may be made of cast-iron or other suitable material, and itcan be cast in one piece. lhere is a dat ring or disk B of properdiameter for the size of the Wheel required, around the center hole ofwhich a ring A rises up the thickness of the wheel.

Around the circumference of the bottom plate B there isa rim of heightand thickness suiicient to form the buckets in rising its wholethickness above the face of the plate B. This rim is divided into asmany parts as the number of buckets required. From each of thesedivision-marks a notch is cut, commencing at the upper inside corner,running downward and outward to the next division, where it terminates.The cross-section of this' notch is an exact square at any point, theouter side of the bucket c being vertical and gradually enlarging, andthe bottom of it being at right angles to it and descending from thecommencement at the top corner of the rim .to the bottom ona level withthe plate B and the whole width of the rim. The under side of this rimis cutaway,

CHADIAH AYLS'VORTH.

In presence of- GEO. PARK,

JNO. H. H. PARK.

